Funny Cane Corso stories

Lots
of Italians love to tell about their experiences with their Cane Corsos. Lots of
these stories are almost legends. Here are some of these famous stories:

By
Umberto Leone:
Once my brother-in-law came to visit my father. He arrived on a motorbike, the
dog was behind the fence. As soon as the man entered the dog grabbed him by the
arm and did not let go. After a while my father came home and he thought it was
enough and set my brother-in-law free.

Umberto
Leone from Manfredonia always had Corsos to help control the beasts and protect
his property. A young man from the village always came to see a litter of
puppies to look at the female pups. He entered the property while nobody was
home. The Corso "on duty" (the same dog as the story above) knew this
young man very well, but as soon as he entered, the dog grabbed him by the chest
and didn't allow him to move before the family came back home. The man, who knew
his attacker's character, stayed calm and had to wait for an hour for the owner
to come home. As soon as the owner came back and ordered the dog to set the poor
guy free, it just behaved normally and acted friendly towards him again.

In
Manfredonia they had the right definition of fresh milk. The milkman walked
around the houses with his cows. He stopped at all the houses and when the
families wanted to buy milk they had it milked before their eyes. The milkman
had a handful of cows and two Cane Corsos. A rope was tied to each of the cows'
horns. And the dogs dragged them with these ropes. If a cow tried to run away or
wouldn't stand still the other Corso would immediately take the other rope and
together the dogs had total control of the cows.

The
next story is one about our own Cane Corso, Delilah:

Like
many, we have a mobile phone which you can also use as an alarm clock. Something
Skinny often does. On day he fell asleep on the couch and had to wake up in time
to do something. He had set the alarm clock in his mobile phone. But he woke up
before the phone went off and went upstairs to take a shower. He left his phone
on the table in the living room. Later he heard a noise outside the bathroom
door and opened it to see what it was. He was very amazed when he found the
phone on the floor with a lot of sixes in the display and our Delilah sitting
next to it with a proud look on her face. She must have thought: 'Usually when
it goes off, my master talks into it, so now that my master can't hear it, I
have to bring it to him.'

This
is the proof for us that a Cane Corso really is a very intelligent dog.

Do
you have a great story about your own Cane Corso. E-mail it to me, so I can add
it to this site.